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Concepcion fire, 6 July 2021 Concepcion, San Carlos

Out · last detection 13 Jul 2021, 17:12 UTC

The fire started on 6 July 2021 in Concepcion, Paraguay, and satellites saw it burning for 7 days. Copernicus’s global GWIS system rebuilt a burnt perimeter of 3,948 hectares from heat detections, spread across 2 municipalities.

It is the 45th largest in Concepción since 2016 (of 195 with a page). Number 68 in Paraguay in 2021, of 251.

Burnt area
3,948ha
GWIS perimeter (Copernicus)
Duration
7days
6 Jul 2021 – 12 Jul 2021
Municipalities hit
2
districts
Started on
6 Jul
2021
Heat detections
129
in a single hotspot: 46 MW
Danger at start
28
High · FWI index
Energy released
1.1GW
sum of detected power

Where it burned

13 Jul 2021
HOTSPOTS BY DAY 6 Jul12 Jul

How it evolved, day by day

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Fire radiative power detected each day, in megawatts, and number of hotspots. The magenta bar marks the peak day.

The weather it burned in

32°high
45km/h · peak gust
20%lowest humidity

It had gone 8 days without rain (1 mm or more) when it started. Rain came after the fire: 8.5 mm on 15 Jul.

This area had burned before

No earlier perimeters overlap this fire since 2016, when the satellite record begins.

What happened to each town

  1. Concepcion where it started
    3,578 ha reached on 6 Jul
    0.5 %
  2. San Carlos
    379 ha reached on 8 Jul
    0.2 %

Burnt area inside each municipality, from crossing the GWIS perimeter with administrative boundaries. The distance is from the town centre to the nearest fire: staying a kilometre away does not mean it reached the houses.

The weather day by day

ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis at the fire location, the standard reference for past weather, and the Canadian Fire Weather Index (the same system Copernicus uses), computed by WorldFires from that data. Days after the fire run until the first rain.

Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · Copernicus Climate Change Service (ERA5)

Day High Min. humidity Peak gust Rain Danger (FWI)
6 Jul 30.3 °C 20 % 37 km/h 0.0 mm High 28
7 Jul 29.7 °C 25 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
8 Jul 29.7 °C 25 % 32 km/h 0.0 mm High 30
9 Jul 30.7 °C 26 % 36 km/h 0.0 mm High 32
10 Jul 32.4 °C 22 % 34 km/h 0.0 mm High 33
11 Jul 31.9 °C 21 % 45 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
12 Jul 31.8 °C 24 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 36
13 Jul after 32.3 °C 22 % 41 km/h 0.0 mm High 37
14 Jul after 33.1 °C 24 % 49 km/h 0.0 mm Very high 42
15 Jul after 25.3 °C 46 % 36 km/h 8.5 mm Very low 4

Before and after, from space

Drag the line to compare the same ground before the fire and after it.

Before · 29 Jun 2021
After · 19 Jul 2021

If the day is cloudy, change the date: each satellite passes once a day. In false colour the burnt ground looks brown or red.

Detections table · 129Every satellite heat detection, one by one, with time, satellite, power and coordinates.
⬇ Download CSV Times in UTC. Each detection is a 375 m pixel: a large fire yields hundreds per pass.
Date and timeSatelliteFRP (MW)LatLon

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Frequently asked questions

How long did the Concepcion fire last?
GWIS (Copernicus) dates it between 6 July 2021 and 12 July 2021: 7 days between the first and last heat detection of the perimeter.
How much area did it burn?
The perimeter GWIS (Copernicus) rebuilt from heat detections is 3,948 hectares (39.5 km²). It is an estimate: official national figures may differ.
Which municipalities burned?
The fire entered 2 municipalities: Concepcion (3,578 ha, 0.5 %); San Carlos (379 ha, 0.2 %).
What was the weather like?
During the fire the temperature reached 32.4 °C, humidity dropped to 20 % and gusts hit 45 km/h. The fire danger index (FWI) reached 36, class High.
Where does this data come from?
From the GWIS (Copernicus) burnt perimeter, NASA FIRMS VIIRS hotspots and the administrative boundaries of Paraguay (geoBoundaries). It is not an official report.

Where to verify it

A satellite detection is not an official report. Final figures and the fire’s status are published by each country’s emergency service.

Emergency number: 132 · 911

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Where this data comes from

The perimeter comes from the Copernicus Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS), which rebuilds it from MODIS and VIIRS heat detections and publishes it under CC BY 4.0. It is not measured on imagery as in Europe, so it is an estimate. Heat detections come from the VIIRS sensors aboard Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20, distributed by NASA FIRMS at 375 m resolution. Municipal boundaries come from geoBoundaries ADM2 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing the perimeter with those boundaries, so it may differ from each country’s official figure.